A group of local youth recently undertook a volunteer project along the Rappahannock River shoreline. Lancaster High School senior Mary Logan Hill organized a trash collection at the public beach adjacent to the Robert O. Norris Jr. Memorial Bridge in Topping. The group collected a truck bed full of trash and plans to return for another clean-up day in the spring. From left are Stewart Hollingsworth, Kaylen Lee, Hill, Owen Miller, Andrew Hill, Andrew Fulmer, Pierson Long and Maddie Jett of Caret, a student at Rappahannock Community College.